HIAC Review. 'For crying out loud Randy, don't fall off.' - 4 October '10.

Hell In A Cell.

We weren't originally going to order this PPV, but the Cena vs Barrett match swayed it for us.


Miz vs Morrison vs Bryan.
I was sceptical about this match, because Submission matches normally bore the hell out of me. It started off well, but it then got very interesting. The star of this match for me, was definitely John Morrison. Not only did JoMo do an amazing Starship Pain (and actually did it correctly) but he did what quite frankly can only be described as a leap of death. The man is crazy. I thought that he had Miz at the top of the ramp, but to my surprise I was very happy to see Alex Riley break it up and fall into a cameraman (which is always funny).


Bryan then made Miz tap out. What I find strange is that Bryan isn't getting a big crowd reaction at all, I have a theory for this: ENTRANCE MUSIC. It can either make or break a wrestler. The entrances should reflect a wrestlers character (Zack Ryder and Cody Rhodes being great examples) but Bryan's music is boring. Actually, that is quite a good judge of character.


Orton vs Sheamus.
I was confused as to why this match was so early on in the card but I was looking forward to it all the same. Randy Orton's HIAC matches are always excellent, so I was hoping Sheamus could perform to the same standard. He did.


This match was full of high spots, my favourite being Randy Orton telling the cameraman to 'MOVE!'. Orton won with an RKO (one of my favourite finishers) and then climbed up the cell. All I was thinking when he got up to the top was, 'For crying out loud Randy, don't fall off.' Luckily, he didn't.


Edge vs Swagger.

Edge had shown up on Smackdown to rain on Jack Swagger's parade in his never-ending quest to end stupidity. It only makes sense that Alberto Del Rio was his next target. Although this time, it was Swagger who interrupted Edge. Edge got a bit angry and went after Swagger and Del Rio and the GM (who sounded a bit like Verne Troyer last week) interfered in the brawl. The GM organised an 'impromptu' match betweeen Swagger and Edge. It was a fair match, as per usual Swagger bled from the mouth. Edge won with a spear and nicely set up a Bragging Rights feud.


Cena vs Barrett.
This is it. This is what months of Cena fighting against Nexus boils down to. Before this match, I was hoping for Barrett to win. Not because I dislike John Cena but because I didn't want WWE to disband their best product. I was not disappointed.


The match started off very well and whilst John Cena was gaining the upper-hand, Nexus then decided to take front row seats at the bottom of the ramp. Wade got a bit angry at them and his Manchester accent got very broad, I'm disappointed that Justin Gabriel didn't have a rational explanation to enlighten us with (in the past he has come out with such gems as, 'Where's the spare key?'). I then had a little mark out moment where the Superstars joined forces and drove Nexus away from ringside. This is where I would have turned into Creative Director and Wade would get John set up for the Wasteland whilst Cena was distracted by the Superstars. This way, Wade would have won and Cena could have blamed his loss on the other Superstars. Therefore, turning him heel.


Unfortunately this didn't happen. The match went on for a bit longer, with Wade even kicking out of the AA (which gave Wade a lot of credibility). Cena had the STF locked in until a fan got into the ring and distracted the ref. Another fan (these fans look suspiciously like NXT season 2 rookies) then hit Cena in the head which helped Wade get the pin. YES! Even though there was interference, Cena is now part of the Nexus. I really didn't think that WWE had the guts to pull something like this off but they have surprised me again. I cannot wait until RAW.


Natalya vs McCool.
Two of the best female wrestlers in the WWE get to have a great singles match on PPV. What I didn't like was that when they unified the titles, they decided to keep the Divas Championship. I would prefer it if the WWE referred to their female competitors as 'wrestlers' and kept the Womens Championship, which sounds a lot more credible than the Divas.


The two of them had a brilliant match, until it ended in a DQ. Hopefully the feud will carry on.


Undertaker vs Kane.
I wouldn't say that I was looking forward to this match. Both Taker and Kane are past their prime and this is a very physically demanding match. Although, I know that both of them can pull off anything.


The match was very even, with a lot of 'BOO...YEY...BOO...' from the crowd. All their finishers were used (including a Last Ride from Taker). Kane then knocked out the ref, allowing Paul Bearer to enter the cell. Taker got temporarily blinded by light coming from the urn, which was then given to Kane by Bearer. I did not see that one coming! Kane won with the help of Bearer. Overall the match wasn't bad. It didn't need the cell though, as it was hardly used. I'm glad I didn't get my hopes up for a HIAC match like the one Taker and Foley had.


This PPV was well worth our money, the word 'surprise' has been used a lot in this post and that is what WWE does best. The predictability that WWE has had in the past has most definitely gone and if this is the standard that all PPVs are going to be, I'm looking forward to the future.
The thing that ruined it a bit for me, was Lawler's digs at Striker. Keep it professional guys.





R x





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'And that is how you mark out over text message.' -28 September '10

One half of 'Oh My...' has travelled off to University. She asked me to send her (very brief) summary text messages as to what happened on last week's Smackdown and iMPACT! Smackdown's went something like this:

Smackdown update Number 1: Kane had a match with Chris 'I was on Big Time Rush' Masters. It was OK. Kane did a dropkick and eventually won. Then Kane had a rant about the Undertaker and made this little kid very uncomfortable.

2: Dashing and Drew had a match against the Hart Dynasty, which was very good. Then it showed Taker sitting on some steps. It then showed Mexican JBL 'hurting' Christian's pectoral muscle backstage. Next, it was a 'From the Vault' of Chris Jericho with his old entrance and his 2008 Y2J character. It made me cry a little.

3: Luke Gallows has had a bit of a shave!

4: CM Punk had a go at Luke Gallows. Luke then strangled CM Punk and told him he was going to have a beer when he won his match against him later on. (Does this mean he can grow his hair back now he has turned on Punk? I hope not.) Kaval and Chavo had a match with lots of flippity flips, Chavo won. Taker then did one of his, 'In the United Kingdom this November, I will go against...' but unfortunately he didn't mention 'Shef-field' this time.

5: Mexican JBL then did a promo on how he beat up Rey and Christian and how Rey is back next week. Christian then came in and beat him up for a bit. But then MexJBL hurt Christian's arm again. Bye bye Christian. Then it showed Taker sat on the steps again.

6. Big Show vs Hawkins and Archer. Hawkins tapped out to a camel clutch, then I was sick in my mouth when I looked at Vance Archer's tattoos. (Come on Vance, wear some tights!) CM Punk came out (with new boots on may I add) to go against Luke Gallows. Punk won with a GTS. Then it showed Taker sitting on some steps. Again.

7. Vickie G then came out and excused herself a bit. Dolph vs MVP. Kaitlyn then pushed Vickie over after fighting over Dolph. LOLOLOLOL. Dolph walked out and got counted out. Then it showed Taker, have a guess... Sitting on some steps again. But this time, he sees someone! I wonder who...

8. Kane is out. Tense music comes on, he starts rambling on about demons and hell again. Many minutes pass. He did say something about Creatures of the Night, but unfortunately I don't think he was referencing Jeff Hardy... Taker's strange druid men come out with a coffin. NO WAY. PAUL BEARER IS IN IT. OMG. HE HAS AN URN. TAKER IS COMING OUT. HIM AND PAUL ARE NOW IN THE RING. TAKER IS FINE AGAIN. HE IS BEATING UP KANE. Kane runs away. Then they do that thing where Taker blobs his tongue out to the urn. Sdown is over.

And that is how you mark out over text message.




R x


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Underrated Wrestlers, our pick. '...why does he not have a title?' - 6th September '10

Underrated. A word that gets used a lot throughout the pro-wrestling community. So we thought that we would share with our massive audience of zero followers who we thought deserved a little bit more.


Zack Ryder.
Poor Zack, a swift kick to the face from Sheamus and that was the end of his first World Title match. As you can tell we love Zack, his hair, his tan, his catchphrase. But WWE seem to be putting him on the back burner recently. He had a very good match on RAW before the Fatal Four Way PPV, but apart from the mentioned incident with Sheamus, he has not really been used all that much. Come on WWE, you have a young, healthy, good wrestler with one of the best characters to get heel heat. Use him please! (Preferably in more matches with Evan Bourne.)


Christian.
The veteran who has never really had a chance. Many think that Christian's lack of title matches is because he spent quite a while in TNA and Vince is punishing him. Really Vince? Christian is a entertaining wrestler who knows what he is doing. Plus, he is a fan favourite. Get Edge back on Smackdown and put him in a feud with Christian immediately!


Matt Hardy.
We have been Hardy Boyz fans since the start and Matt has never once had a World Title in all these years. We know that nowadays Matt is a little on the round side, (Fat Matt, Husky Hardy, you know what we mean.) but he is still very capable. He is another fan favourite who always gets a loud ovation so why does he not have a title?


Cody Rhodes.
DASHING. We love this man with his eyebrow combing and his gleaming smile, but it seems that although he is on Smackdown every week, a title opportunity hasn't come his way in a while. I think he would be a great IC Champ and he is one of the best heels the company has. He is only young, so hopefully the future holds bright things for Cody.

William Regal, Gail Kim, Goldust and the Dudebusters all get mentions too.



R x



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Summerslam Part 3. 'His facial hair looks abysmal.' - 6th September '10

We had mixed emotions about the main event of Summerslam 2010, mostly the fear of being disappointed. The mystery member of Team WWE had still not been announced and we thought that it would probably be Mark Henry (It always is, isn't it?). But to our surprise, The Miz decided that he would take the spot. Ok, that isn't too bad.

Just when we got comfortable in our seats to watch the match, John Cena decides to say that Miz was too late and he has already found someone. Hence, both of us literally on the edge of our seats, feeling sick with anticipation...

Cena: "Well, sorry Miz but you are too late. You see, we have been looking all over for another member and we have already found one."
Miz: "Who? Who could possibly be more awesome than me?"
Cena: "Good question, but maybe there is somebody. Somebody with millions...and millions of fans."
Miz: "So, who are you going to get? Lady Gaga? The Jonas Brothers?"
Cena: "Sadly, no. We have got this man..."

-"IF YOU SMELLLL, WHAT THE ROCK, IS COOKIN'."


And then I woke up.


There was no Rock. But there was a huge surprise that it was Daniel Bryan that showed up. We are not the biggest fans of his here at 'Oh My...' but we applauded WWE on an actual surprise. Unfortunately, there are three things wrong with Daniel Bryan being the mystery member.



1. Nobody mentioned that he had any bad feelings towards the Nexus. Last time we saw him, he was working with them. Confusing, yes.

2. He spat in Cena's face, now they are acting like best buddies.

3. His facial hair looks abysmal.


The actual match was very good, since this was basically professionals against rookies. It eventually got down to John Cena and Wade Barrett. We were hoping that Wade would pull this one out of the bag because Nexus had dominated nearly everyone on the roster. We were mistaken, Wade the 6'5'', bare knuckle fighting Mancunian tapped out to Cena.


Overall, this PPV was worth staying up until 4 in the morning for. Roll on Summerslam 2011.



R x



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Summerslam Part 2. 'Oh dear, this can't end good.' - 17th August '10

Next up was a promo by The Miz (OMW's second favourite wrestler after Dashing of course, who there was a serious lack of at SSlam), where he said that he was going to reveal whether or not he would be on WWE's team against The Nexus. We were hoping that he would say he wasn't going to, not because we didn't want to see him wrestle, but because we were hoping for a big surprise to fill the remaining spot, say, The Rock returning (as if that was ever going to happen). Mizzy was saying about how all the team had begged him to join the team, and came up with the funniest line we've heard in wrestling all year - "John Cena said I'm the only one who can see him". We didn't really hear a lot of what the Miz was saying after this becuase we were laughing so hard. Anyway, the long and short of it was that he was going to join WWE's team in the fight against the Nexus. And then of course the obligatory "Because I'm The Miz...", you know the rest. OK, so no surprise team member for that match then. Or is there...?

Then came the match for the WWE Championship between current champion Sheamus and Randy Orton. The match started with a little showboating and taunting from Sheamus, not clever when you've got Randy Orton across the ring from you. There's a bit of back and forward for a while until a steel chair is bought into the equation by Sheamus. Oh dear, this can't end good. The referee tries to fight the chair from Sheamus, and fails, getting knocked out of the ring in the process. This of course ends in a disqualification for the Human Jar Of Mayonaise and a win for RanOr, though not in the way he had hoped. He took out his frustrations on the champ, leading to a RKO on the announcers' table. Let's hope that Randy gets back what he thoroughly deserves soon (although this is doubtful of the rumours of HHH coming back for a feud with Sheamus are to be believed).

Next up was the (overly predictable) match between Kane and Rey Mysterio for the World Heavyweight Championship. Kane enters with a casket (or coffin, in English), and we predict from the very start what is going to happen with that. Every time Kane opened the casket, we were expecting to see someone pop out of it. But no, at least 3 times we were disapointed. The match finished with quite a good set of moves and counters, and Kane picked up the win. Kane goes for the casket, opens it, and Guess Who? It's only the bloomin' Undertaker! Predictable, but good all the same. He's looking pretty rough nowadays isn't he? Obviously MC Cool isn't taking good care of her old man. Go on Taker, whip out the Just For Men. After Undy threatening ReyRey, but believing that he wasn't the one who attacked him, he turned his attentions to Kane, who at this point thought he'd gotten away with it if it weren't for that meddling Mysterio. Both grabbed each other round the neck to set up for a Chokeslam, but Kane overpowered Taker and swiftly tombstoned him. Next there'll probably be the predictable Brother vs Brother feud for the 273 millionth time.

L x

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Summerslam Part 1. 'Eeeew. I do not like that!' - 16 August '10

Here at 'Oh My...' we don't normally get so excited about Summerslam. This year though it was a different story. Probably because the Sky+ refused to record it so we had to stay up to watch the whole thing until 4am...


Been as we were sacrificing sleep for Summerslam, we thought would throw a bit of a bash. Cue, a trip to the supermarket. We ended up buying: Crisp 'Jerichos', 'Friday Night' Angel Delight, 'West Coast' Pop, 'Long Island Iced Z', Skips 'Sheffield', 'Cross Face' Chicken Wings, a 'Human Jar of Mayonnaise' and the Chomp 'Is Here!'. We also bought 'Summerslam' Salsa. (A bit of a tenuous link, but I really wanted salsa...)


Then, the show finally started. The first match was for the IC title, first out was Dolph 'Why do I have to pretend Vickie is my girlfriend?' Ziggler, along with Vickie 'I should really stay behing the curtain' Guerrero. Kofi then bounced out, looking like a Jamaican Hulk Hogan. The match was going pretty well until from out of the blue, NNNNNNN turned up. I was not expecting that, well not in a Smackdown match anyway. They could have at least waited until it had finished, or done it in a more high profile match. Oh well, at least Ziggler still has the title...


Next was the Divas Championship match. I still don't get why Alicia Fox had the thing in the first place, her legs are way too long for her body to be co-ordinated with them. Melina came out wearing a headdress and many other things that took too long to remove. And when she did remove them, she was wearing the most hideous tights which probably made her look naked to the people in the nosebleed seats. The match was a bit of a train reck, a couple of good moves from Melina saved the match. Then it all ended very quickly, with Melina as new Divas Champion. Well done. No time to celebrate though as LayCool (The Marmite of the Divas division, you either love them or hate them) came to beat up Melina and Alicia Fox. Michelle McCool even dropped her i-Phone on the floor which was still there when she went back up the ramp. In Chesterfield that would have been swiped and sold on Ebay in 10 seconds...


Next was Big Show vs the SES. The hilight of this was looking at CM Punk's new tattoo and going, 'Eeeew. I do not like that!' The match was actually quite good, bearing in mind this was a 3 on 1 handicap match involving the Big Show. What distracted me in this match, was that Joey (Sorry, Joseph) Mercury over sells most of his moves. He always takes it 1 step too far. Maybe he is jealous that John Morrison could keep his job, and his hair...Punk and Serena then left the rest of the SES to tackle the Big Show. They failed miserably. I sense cracks in the foundations of the SES.



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Never have I cringed so much in the space of 5 minutes... - 9 August '10

I look forward to Thursday nights nowadays. Basically because I love NXT. I think it was a good move by the WWE to ditch a show that was a shadow of it's former self, and bring in some new talent.


Although when you bring in new talent, I thought the idea was to push them, to show off their skills and abilities. But WWE seem to be doing the exact opposite. Instead of filling a show with excellent wrestling matches, they choose to have kissing contests (Never have I cringed so much in the space of 5 minutes). Instead of pushing the rookies, they make them look bad in ridiculous talk-offs. When they eventually get around to the matches, they are brilliant! They may think the challenges are entertaining, but I find them embarrassing. If Bret Hart had been in NXT when he first started, he would have been humiliated when asked to cut a promo on something totally irrelevant. Think about if the Great Khali had been asked to do an obstacle course, he wouldn't have got around it in the time the show was being taped.


However much I moan about it, I think that NXT is something different from the same old RAW and Smackdown shows (Even though RAW and SD have been getting so much better over the past few months). It gives you a glimpse into the future of the WWE (and it gets Zack Ryder on TV every week). Imagine, no NXT, no Nexus, no best storyline in WWE for years.

On a lighter note, how much does Alex Riley look like the Miz? And act like the Miz?


And please, no more kissing contests. I'd like to keep my dinner down next time... (I'm talking to you Michael McGillicutty.)

R x (Oh, and congratulations Jeff and Beth!)




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